Zainab Alibhai: A woman of firsts on diving for dreams

As you read this in your office, Zainab Alibhai might be tumbling off a plane 12,000 feet above the Indian Ocean or God-knows-where.

That is her job, to fall off planes, often strapped onto someone who is probably screaming or praying or both. She is a skydiving instructor, the first internationally recognised Kenyan skydive instructor, and the first Kenyan to be certified as an internationally recognised FAA Senior Parachute Rigger [and perhaps the only FAA Senior Parachute Rigger in all of East Africa, word has it].